Posts Tagged ‘Bekah Brunstetter’
MISS LILLY GETS BONED
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
A 35-year-old Sunday School teacher who’s saving herself for Hugh Grant. A man who might just be the next best thing to Hugh. A child grieving his mother’s recent death. An elephant guilty of murder. A doctor given a week to tame this lethal beast. Stir in a sexually hyperactive younger sister and you’ve got Bekah Brunstetter’s latest theatrical gem, Miss Lilly Gets Boned, freshly revised from its 2010 World Premiere for its 2019 Rogue Machine West Coast debut.
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BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW
Saturday, May 25th, 2019
Life presents unexpected challenges to a newlywed bride in Bekah Brunstetter’s gut-puncher of a dramedy Be A Good Little Widow, a particularly fine visiting production at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.
THE CAKE
Monday, July 3rd, 2017
Bekah Brunstetter puts a deeply personal, delightfully down-home face on the Gay-Wedding-Cake Wars in The Cake, the gifted young playwright’s latest World Premiere dramedy, another feather in director Jennifer Chambers’ and The Echo Theater Company’s multi-plumed hats.
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GOING TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Questions of life and death and what awaits beyond lie at the heart of Bekah Brunstetter’s heartstrings-tugging Going to a Place where you Already Are, a South Coast Repertory World Premiere you will be talking and thinking about long after its final scene.
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hey brother
Sunday, December 7th, 2014
A 20something Asian-American adoptee fantasizes about the sibling she might possibly have in China as a pair of North Carolina brothers find their real-life relationship considerably thornier than the one she can only imagine in Bekah Brunstetter’s World Premiere dramedy hey brother, the terrific latest from the company of young artists who call themselves Fresh Produce’d L.A.
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LITTLE MAN
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
The much-dreaded, much-anticipated gathering we call the High School Reunion would seem such a surefire source of comedy, drama, and audience empathy that it comes as a surprise how few films and plays have centered on this once-in-a-decade event. Playwright Bekah Brunstetter helps fill this gap in her highly enjoyable World Premiere dramedy Little Man, the latest from The Los Angeles New Court Theatre.
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BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW
Saturday, April 19th, 2014
The thin line between comedy and tragedy is tread quite astonishingly well by Bekah Brunstetter in her 2011 play Be A Good Little Widow, now getting a pitch-perfect Los Angeles Premiere, one that exemplifies intimate L.A. theater at its finest.
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